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Swifties’ Ticketmaster Lawsuit Reveals ‘Anti-Hero’ Behavior

Berkley Technology Law Journal

2023 Taylor Swift’s fans, affectionately called Swifties, closed out 2022 with an antitrust complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Ticketmaster, the online ticketing giant. In 2019 the antitrust division of the DOJ filed United States v. By Shabrina Defi Khansa, LL.M. Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

LawSites

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. Three Recommendations.

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Courts Disrupted: Pew Study Finds Pandemic Caused Courts to Revolutionize their Operations, But Says More Needs to be Done

LawSites

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. Three Recommendations.

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A brief look at the copyright issues raised by generative AI

Ikigai Law

In 2021, an application was filed to the US Copyright office, for copyright registration of a comic book consisting of text and images (created partly by a human and partly by AI tool “ Midjourney ”). For this purpose, it’s important that developers of DALL-E obtain a license to use such works. Few of the cases are discussed below.

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Responding to Malicious Corporate Deepfakes

Debevoise Data Blog

Tools like Open AI’s Dall-E 2 and Stability AI’s open-source Stable Diffusion expand access to this creative power, and may further increase the ubiquity of deepfakes, while making it more and more difficult to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent AI-generated content.

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Supreme Court Fixes One Problem with the Copyright Statute of Limitations, But Punts Another — Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

355, 360-61 (2019). Combining these two holdings, it concluded: “we must apply the discovery rule to determine when a copyright infringement claim accrues, but a three-year lookback period from the time a suit is filed to determine the extent of the relief available.” By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa Last week, the U.S. at 37 (Scalia, J.,

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Contractual Control over Information Goods after ML Genius v. Google (Guest Blog Post)

Eric Goldman

Guy Rub , The Ohio State University Michael E. Before 2019, the Second Circuit did not express its opinion on this question (although it decided cases dealing with contractual control over unprotected data), but then, almost in passing, it held a contract preempted. Many of those contractual anti-scraping lawsuits were successful.

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